What the **** is going on in Chicago?

[Uman85]

Happened on a ..........FRATurday too.

Needed a bit more #Swag to prevent the violence.

 

[MDB111™]

DC has always been a murder capital but during the summer a murder a day used to be typical. Last year the Trinidad neighborhood had a bad weekend but 9 murders in a weekend with 50 + shot up is some serious shit! What's the count up to today?

 

[FirstTimer]

DC has always been a murder capital but during the summer a murder a day used to be typical. Last year the Trinidad neighborhood had a bad weekend but 9 murders in a weekend with 50 + shot up is some serious shit! What's the count up to today?

No one cares.

 

[Impress3]

There has been over 50 people shot since Friday, nine killed.

http://globalgrind.com/news/over-56-people-shot-chicago-weekend-summer-2012-details

as I stated in the Zimmerman thread. No one cares.

Bet we won't see Sharpton and Jackson out there in them streets calling attention to this. smh

 

[MDB111™]

No one cares.

So now you speak for the entire message board?

 

[Happy Human 1001]

yeah, it's BS to say that no one cares. It's just that no one knows what to do about it

 

[Saluki]

Crazy as it sounds this happens every couple of months. Look for it again around October.

 

[FirstTimer]

So now you speak for the entire message board?

Yes.

 

[MDB111™]

 

[ursamajor]

This one is hard for CPD to control b/c for a change it isn't the black gangs going at it, but rather the Mexicans. More specifically, northern Vs. southern cartel factions and gangs battling over drug territories.

While FirstTimer is a raging bigot, simply looking at the history of Gang Violence in Chicago goes to show that it has more to do with oppressed, dis-advantaged groups of people than race, religion or creed. All the way back to the Northside and Southside Gangs, and Prohibition. Now instead of liquor, it is drugs-but the story is still the same. And the ethnic heritage may have changed, but the socio-economic demographics have not. This is a problem that is as old as civilization itself. It will never change.

 

[Sunbiz1]

While FirstTimer is a raging bigot, simply looking at the history of Gang Violence in Chicago goes to show that it has more to do with oppressed, dis-advantaged groups of people than race, religion or creed. All the way back to the Northside and Southside Gangs, and Prohibition. Now instead of liquor, it is drugs-but the story is still the same. And the ethnic heritage may have changed, but the socio-economic demographics have not. This is a problem that is as old as civilization itself. It will never change.[/QUOTE

Whenever there's a market created for an illegal product, it's the people with less to lose who are willing to risk supplying it. Those without the promise of a decent career etc., once that happens it's only a matter of time before $$ disputes begin. A good Chicago example would be K-town(west side where street names begin w/K)up until recently. The area itself has always been wrapped in narcotics trafficking. But about a decade ago, lots of young, white suburban kids began driving down there to purchase drugs. Shortly thereafter, the murder rate soared in that district and stayed high for a number of years.

Every poor neighborhood in the city has gone through the K-town experience at some point.